This book investigates multiple musical traditions in South East Europe, crossing conventional borders between musicology and ethnomusicology in an attempt to elucidate how music has contributed to th
"If the Balkans hadn't existed, they would have been invented" was the verdict of Count Hermann Keyserling in his famous 1928 publication, Europe. Over ten years ago, Maria Todorova traced the relatio
In the Balkans, says Bjelic (U. of Southern Maine, US), the pathology of ethnic hatred and war was conjured up by psychoanalytic language strategically deployed to normalize the contested geography of
Can Europe tame the Balkans? That's the question veteran journalist Elizabeth Pond addresses in this timely and absorbing book. Starting with the wars of the Yugoslav succession, Endgame in the Balkan
“Furst's books are like Chopin's nocturnes: timeless, transcendent, universal.One does not so much read them as fall under their spell.”Los Angeles Times, on The Spies of Warsaw&nbs
Greece, 1940. In the port city of Salonika, with its wharves and brothels, dark alleys and Turkish mansions, a tense political drama is being played out. As Adolf Hitler plans to invade the Balkans, s
An incisive analysis of Britain's decision-making role in the Yugoslavian conflict of the 1990s and in the formation of its successor states. Tracing the evolution of British policy from the onset of
